What would you do if......? - Page 4

Elf Girl · 04-23-2002, 04:05 PM

I'd bring electric gadgets and trad them for gold.

Blackheart · 04-23-2002, 05:26 PM

Umm. Where will you plug them in??

BeardofPants · 04-23-2002, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by Elf Girl
I'd bring electric gadgets and trad them for gold.

Um... just a point: from an anthropological point of view, how good an idea is it to mix modern technology with a feudal age? I can't see anything but negative repurcussions for ME, and personally, I don't think I'd want to be the twit who managed to knock ME civilisation so out of whack, that instead of the One Ring, we'd have to worry about the other terrors of modern technology. Also, from a sociological point of view, how would this impact upon the various peoples in ME? As handy as a torch, or a discman would be, I think it would probably start either insanity, ("Ooh, magic..."), headhunting, ("Let's get her! She must be a spawn of Sauron..."), and maybe a black market trade!!

Wulažg · 04-23-2002, 06:05 PM

Why the anthropocentric view? We don't really care about the humans, just the elves. Plus what's the problem with starting cults etc?

Blackheart · 04-23-2002, 06:16 PM

Beware of my magic noise box! It makes bomma noize!

Beware my magic dakka dakka thunda stik too!

Beleg Strongbow · 04-24-2002, 12:21 PM

besides, it's just YOU that comes to ME (no electric stuff).
did anyone get that? that was cool.

Wulažg · 04-24-2002, 12:43 PM

I think in reality I would just run as fast as I could to elven lands, screaming "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" the whole way. They might not kill me since I know some elvish. Not enough for normal life there but I could learn.

Wulažg · 04-24-2002, 12:47 PM

Or better yet, just singing...

"Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo!
By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow,
By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us!
Come Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!"

I hear he comes pretty fast.....

Blackheart · 04-24-2002, 01:25 PM

What? Just me? Ala Terminator?

In which case we all appear naked...

Well, then I'm sure some kindly female will appear to take care of me shortly after my appearance

Elf Girl · 04-24-2002, 03:24 PM

Or maybe I'd ask for an Elven-Cloak in Lorien.

Blackheart · 04-24-2002, 03:43 PM

Bah. Elf skin cloak!

Now dats da ticket!

BeardofPants · 04-24-2002, 04:07 PM

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Originally posted by Wulažg
If think in reality I would just run as fast as I could to elven lands, screaming "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" the whole way. They might not kill me since I know some elvish. Not enough for normal life there but I could learn.

I you ran, screaming the whole way, I'm sure you'd run into trouble sooner or later. Some orcs'll pounce on you, or something. Besides, remember how hard it was to get into Rivendell, even if you knew exactly where it was? Ditto for Lothlorien. The best policy, would probably be to make for Bree, depending of course, where you land in ME. Gondor would be another good place to be, if you managed to avoid the Gap of Rohan. Failing that, mug an orc, and wear it's armour, mingle in with them, until an opportune time came to escape....

Elfmaster XK · 04-24-2002, 04:12 PM

Originally posted by Wulažg
I think in reality I would just run as fast as I could to elven lands, screaming "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" the whole way. They might not kill me since I know some elvish. Not enough for normal life there but I could learn.

I think if you were there long enough you'd learn. Just look at ppl who go away for a year to some random country and come back knowing more than if they'd taken a course in it. It's a good plan IMO

Wow! BoP came up with a sensible plan!!

Elf Girl · 04-24-2002, 04:24 PM

But if an Elf saw you in your orc's armour...*shoots an orc*

Elfmaster XK · 04-24-2002, 04:30 PM

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Originally posted by Elf Girl
But if an Elf saw you in your orc's armour...*shoots an orc*

eh...all plans have flaws, and you take it off once out of the orc vacinity

Blackheart · 04-24-2002, 04:55 PM

Yer not gettin my armor Tarknugger.

BeardofPants · 04-24-2002, 04:57 PM

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Originally posted by Blackheart
Yer not gettin my armor Tarknugger.

*Eyes Blackheart in his birthday suit.*

Eh... you're probably right. Wouldn't be much point in flaying you for camoflage.

Blackheart · 04-24-2002, 05:30 PM

Hmmm....

And where's your clothes?

You can do without clothes for a while, what will really hurt is the lack of shoes. Traveling barefoot really really sucks.

BeardofPants · 04-24-2002, 05:40 PM

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Originally posted by Blackheart
Hmmm....

And where's your clothes?

Well: that would be why I was in the middle of mugging an orc... Anyway, I think that probably any naked female could probably manage to convince some passing nomads to give her supplies.

Wulažg · 04-24-2002, 06:20 PM

Very true. I think us fanatics who routinely go around a la hobbit would have an advantage since we would barely notice not having shoes. Or clothes. You know their feet weren't the only place they were hairy...

*shudders at the thought of a naked, hairy hobbit*

04-23-2002, 04:05 PM	#61
Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	I'd bring electric gadgets and trad them for gold. __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

04-23-2002, 05:26 PM	#62
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Umm. Where will you plug them in?? __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-23-2002, 06:16 PM	#65
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Beware of my magic noise box! It makes bomma noize! Beware my magic dakka dakka thunda stik too! __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-24-2002, 12:21 PM	#66
Beleg Strongbow Truest of Friends Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Pennsylvania, but I have a vacation home in the Westfarthing. Posts: 520	besides, it's just YOU that comes to ME (no electric stuff). did anyone get that? that was cool. __________________ "...Beleg Strongbow, truest of friends, greatest in skill of all that harboured in the woods of Beleriand in the Elder Days..." Aure Entuleva! John Kerry for President!

04-24-2002, 01:25 PM	#69
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	What? Just me? Ala Terminator? In which case we all appear naked... Well, then I'm sure some kindly female will appear to take care of me shortly after my appearance __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-23-2002, 06:05 PM	#64
Wulažg Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 306	Why the anthropocentric view? We don't really care about the humans, just the elves. Plus what's the problem with starting cults etc?

04-24-2002, 12:43 PM	#67
Wulažg Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 306	I think in reality I would just run as fast as I could to elven lands, screaming "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" the whole way. They might not kill me since I know some elvish. Not enough for normal life there but I could learn.

04-24-2002, 12:47 PM	#68
Wulažg Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 306	Or better yet, just singing... "Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!" I hear he comes pretty fast.....

04-24-2002, 03:24 PM	#70
Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	Or maybe I'd ask for an Elven-Cloak in Lorien. __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

04-24-2002, 03:43 PM	#71
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Bah. Elf skin cloak! Now dats da ticket! __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-24-2002, 04:12 PM	#73
Elfmaster XK Possessive Villain Fancier Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: On my ship, riding the waves YARR! Posts: 2,008	Originally posted by Wulažg I think in reality I would just run as fast as I could to elven lands, screaming "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" the whole way. They might not kill me since I know some elvish. Not enough for normal life there but I could learn. I think if you were there long enough you'd learn. Just look at ppl who go away for a year to some random country and come back knowing more than if they'd taken a course in it. It's a good plan IMO Wow! BoP came up with a sensible plan!! __________________ My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly - my friends. XK

04-24-2002, 04:24 PM	#74
Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	But if an Elf saw you in your orc's armour...shoots an orc __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

04-24-2002, 04:55 PM	#76
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Yer not gettin my armor Tarknugger. __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-24-2002, 05:30 PM	#78
Blackheart Elf Lord Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Darkness Posts: 1,211	Hmmm.... And where's your clothes? You can do without clothes for a while, what will really hurt is the lack of shoes. Traveling barefoot really really sucks. __________________ I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness... Queer haow a cravin' gits a holt on ye -- As ye love the Almighty, young man, don't tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy -- here, set still, what's ailin' ye? ...

04-24-2002, 06:20 PM	#80
Wulažg Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 306	Very true. I think us fanatics who routinely go around a la hobbit would have an advantage since we would barely notice not having shoes. Or clothes. You know their feet weren't the only place they were hairy... shudders at the thought of a naked, hairy hobbit